Facebook users have begged for the feature for years – and now they have been rewarded: There are now five other ways to react as well as saying ‘Like’.

Admittedly, several of the new ones are pretty enthusiastic too – ie ‘Love’, ‘Wow’ and ‘Haha’.

But the other two – ‘Sad’ and ‘Angry’ – are as close to a ‘Dislike’ button as we’re likely to see in the near future.

Facebook says: ‘Starting on Wednesday and rolling out across all platforms in the coming days, you can add one of the new Reactions by holding down ‘like’ on mobile or hovering over it on desktop in order to see the Reactions images.

‘Then you just tap or click on the one you want to use.

Facebook has been testing the new buttons in Ireland, Spain, Chile, Philippines, Portugal, Colombia and Japan since October 2015.

In tests, the ‘Love’ button has been the most popular, at least in Spain.

The feature is already rolling out on desktops in the UK – we can see it from some accounts here – and is set to roll out on Facebook’s various apps ‘in the coming days’, the company said.

The ‘Like’ button had been a staple on the site since 2009, but had been the subject of much discussion, prompting Mark Zuckerberg to say on multiple occasions that he was ‘considering’ alternatives.

‘We’re thinking about it,’ he said in 2014. ‘there are more sentiments that people want to express than just positivity or that they like something.’

He did add, however, that any alternative should be a ‘force for good’, adding to an earlier announcement by former CTO Bret Taylor that there would ‘never’ be a ‘dislike’ option.